Events

This month's Westwoods Trails Committee meeting will be held Monday, February 24 at 7:30 PM at the Guilford Community Center (32 Church St) in the Leete Room. We will have a Zoom set up so those who want to attend virtually can do so. The link to join is below. If you have any problems connecting, Paul can be reached […]

Our inspection of Loop 3 on the 15th uncovered a number of issues we plan to address on the first two work parties of this month. Today, we’ll be (1) relocating three sections of trails (two on hiker created by-passes, and a third where we’ll clear a dryer path nearby), (2) Try to drain a wet area on the Blue […]

The second of Loop 3 work parties. Today we plan to pull two 12 ft bridges out of the dirt and mud they’re sunk into, and place them on cedar or locust sleepers. We also plan to haul in a third 12ft bridge, which will span another wet area that’s formed immediately to the south. We’ll have ironed out the […]

Part of a survey walk planned to critically review all aspects of trail condition and location throughout Westwoods, to capture other property information (like invasive plant sitings, graffiti, etc.) and unauthorized use of the property. To record this information in the field, we plan to use the Avenza Map app, which is available on both the Apple and Android handhelds […]

Our inspection of Loop 4 on the 15th uncovered a number of issues we plan to address on two of this month’s work parties. Today, we’ll be (1) reestablishing four sections of trails (mostly places where the original trail wasn’t well marked and hikers have created multiple paths) and (2) relocating a wet section to a dryer ground nearby. We’ll […]

Reports of poor blazing direct our work party to Big Maple this week. We’ve not been there for some time and expect that trail clearing will be needed too. So, beyond the hammer, nails and blazes, this will be a mix of chainsaw and hand work, so bring what equipment you’re comfortable using. If you’d like to help blaze, you […]

This will be our first organized invasives work party of the year and we will be learning from it as we go, but it would great to have WWTC volunteers to help in this effort. GLCT director Jim Ballentine and Westwoods Property Steward Karen Klugman plan to cut, treat with herbicide and pull (primarily) Multiflora Rose seedlings along the blue […]

Part of a survey walk planned to critically review all aspects of trail condition and location throughout Westwoods, to capture other property information (like invasive plant sitings, graffiti, etc.) and unauthorized use of the property. To record this information in the field, we plan to use the Avenza Map app, which is available on both the Apple and Android handhelds […]